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out signals, ’I’m here,
are you kin? Please
you to love me.’
V
Words have their twin being
in the world of things
you say ‘they’
you look around wondering what sort of they
a long-lost they a home-coming they
a they who have come to unravel
a rare spool of reverence?
VI
For me it was the key of E flat minor
the entire world in one split second
a late string quartet dark and mysterious
and the late birds hurrying to get home
before the nest closes down for the night.
VII
Time came and I heard them
laughing their heads off
debating our existence
they asked how many of us
could dance on the head of a pin.
I suggested they go out
to count the number of teeth
in a horse’s mouth
leaving aside the vexed question
as to the existence of horses.
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